Anime Watch List – Q4 2009

Its the time of year again when I have to decide what I’m going to watch for the next 3 months. My watch list has recently been shortened considerably as various series conclude, signaling the impending start of a new round of anime. These are the anime I’m planning to watch that start in October 2009. I’m not the biggest fan of translating names, but for the convenience of my English-speaking or non-Anime watching readers, I’ve included translations or official English names in brackets. Links go to MyAnimeList.net where you’ll be able to get a summary of each series.

I’m excited about the continuations of existing series including White Album, Asura Cryin’, and Toaru Majutsu no Index’s spinoff Toaru Kagaku no Rail Gun. I have mixed feelings about Shugo Chara Dokki Doki. I loved the first two seasons, but the show was really concluded in those two seasons. I can’t imagine this third season being anything more then filler, or anime original content, which the first seasons already had their fair share of. My excitement for new shows is in particular extended to Kobato which is from CLAMP, a manga-ka group who I am a big fan of. I’m yet to watch a series by CLAMP which I haven’t enjoyed.

What are you expectations for this season? Do you have any suggestions?

Posted October 1st, 2009 in Anime - Comments

WordPress Tutorial – Table of Contents in a Page

This tutorial will explain how to add a table of contents to a generic WordPress page. Our table of contents will be a list of posts in chronological order. This tutorial is a follow up to a comment on the post for my WordPress Table of Contents Widget by Ashley who indicated that she would be interested in the capability of having a table of contents in a page rather then the sidebar.

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Posted September 23rd, 2009 in Code, Tutorials, WordPress - Comments

Web Fiction Table of Contents Widget for WordPress

Download Plugin v0.2
Compatible with WordPress 2.8 and up.

This is a sidebar widget for WordPress that will generate a table of contents from the posts located within a specified category.

It is intended for authors of web fiction but should be useful to anyone using posts to write a book or similar in a serialized format.

The plugin appears to work, but this is an early release. Your feedback (and bug reports/suggestions) is very much appreciated.

Sample Web Fiction Using Ths Widget

Installation:

  1. Upload the `web-fiction-table-of-contents-widget` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. The widget will now show up under Appearance/Widgets ready for use.

Support:
Muse’s Success Forums

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Posted September 6th, 2009 in Code, WordPress - Comments

Introduction to PHP: Installing PHP (Windows)

This tutorial will take you through the steps needed to install PHP on Microsoft Windows. I’m using Vista, but with minor changes, these instructions should also be valid for Windows XP and Windows 7 as well.

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Posted July 15th, 2009 in PHP, Tutorials - Comments

My Development Environment

I thought it would be nice to make a post about my development environment. That is, the tools and applications I use in my development of Muse’s Success and other projects.

Editor: Eclipse plus Aptana Studio and CFEclipse. I also like Winsyntax for PHP development.

Source Code Management: Git.

Test Server: Apache/2.2.11 PHP/5.2.9-2 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.4 JRun/4.0

Operating System Windows Vista + Ubuntu. I want a Mac OS X machine as well.

Database Management: phpMyAdmin

File Upload: Filezilla

I would be interested in hearing about what you use to develop your web applications in either the comments or as a trackback to this post.

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

Posted July 12th, 2009 in Code - Comments

Summer (Winter) 09 Anime Watch List

I’ve gone through and chosen the series I will be watching this season. I’ll update this post later with short impressions of the series I’ve chosen. For now, I just have a list.

What are you watching this season?

UPDATE! Just waiting on Element Hunters and Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 now. I also haven’t seen the real beginning of Yokuwakeru Gendaimahou but the special episode that streamed online was good, so I think even if I watch these two before the real first episode comes out, I can still give a valid impression.

UPDATE #2: Still waiting for Element Hunters, if its not out by tomorrow, I’ll make a post without it.

Posted July 4th, 2009 in Anime - Comments

Introduction to PHP: Hello World + MySQL

This tutorial builds on the previous tutorial – Introduction to PHP: Hello World and as such, you should take that tutorial first if you have not already.

In this tutorial, we are going to take our previous Hello World script, and store the date in a database. We will then add the last access time to our original script.

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Posted June 30th, 2009 in PHP, Tutorials - Comments

Introduction to PHP: Hello World

This tutorial will introduce you to PHP with the customary Hello World script. You will be introduced to the echo language construct and the date() function. The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to output text, and display the current date.

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Posted June 18th, 2009 in PHP, Tutorials - Comments

New Layout – Winter Blue

I’ve just created a new layout and applied it to the site. It’s still under-going tweaking, but your opinions and suggestions would be appreciated.

Posted June 17th, 2009 in Site - Comments

Introduction to PHP: Includes

This tutorial will introduce you to the PHP include statement, and its almost identical sibling, require.

The include statement is used to insert the contents of one file into the contents of another.

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Posted June 11th, 2009 in PHP, Tutorials - Comments